Children's Services Office Support/Receptionist (Meet & greet at Manningtree Library for healthy family drop in [Baby weigh in clinic])
Barnardo’s is committed to providing ‘Better Outcomes for More Children’. Our children’s services volunteers help the charity to deliver essential services in local communities, providing support to over 300,000 children, young people and their families. This role provides a great opportunity to join our fantastic children’s services and help make a real difference.
Barnardo’s Office Support Volunteers support a range of children’s services, such as Care Leavers, Advocacy and Mental Health support services, as well as back office support, providing administrative and reception support. Completing general admin duties, alongside booking rooms, ensuring notice boards are up to date and recording service user information, our Office Support Volunteers keep our services running efficiently.
We are looking for organised people, with basic admin skills. As a good communicator, you will be friendly and approachable and able to communicate with professionals from a range of backgrounds.
Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service brings together a range of children’s community services that are free at the point of delivery. It’s provided by HCRG in partnership with Barnardo’s on behalf of Essex County Council, West Essex CCG and the NHS.
The focus across all our services is on making sure that everyone in Essex has the best possible start in life through community services that are accessible, high quality and meet the identified needs of children, young people, and families.
We deliver broad areas of support:
- Health Visiting: e.g. antenatal contact, transition to parenthood, new baby review, maternal mental health, wellbeing and development of children under 1 year and 2-3 year reviews, support to ‘be ready for school’
- Parenting Support: e.g. infant feeding support, weaning toilet training, school entry review and childcare confidence support
- School Nursing: e.g. support for young people in schools with wellbeing and health concerns, Chat Health an online support service
- Family Health: e.g. substance misuse, contraception advice, nutrition support, mental health (maternal & infant), smoking cessation.
- Support for ages 5-19: e.g. dental care, review of immunisation status, support with any physical, emotional or developmental problems, provides children, parents and school staff with information on specific health issues, measuring height and weight
- Support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities up to the age of 25
We are looking for warm and friendly volunteer to welcome our service users to our Manningtree Healthy Family Drop In Clinic which runs on a Friday afternon from 1.15 until 3pm.
In this role you will support people to access the Healthy Family Drop In Clinic where parents/carers can get their baby weighed.
You will be our first point of contact for families
You will play an important role in supporting our team and signposting families to services available
General assistance as required
Please note you will not be weighing the babies, you will be assisting the practitioner during the session.